Water game, outdoors.
Equipment: 1 soccer ball; 2 innertubes; 1 waterball; 2 water basketball hoops; blindfolds; string.
Formation: teams.
The object of this game is to allow players to experience the sensation of ...

Active, outdoors/indoors
Equipment: Per team: 1 big balloon; 1 small balloon.
Formation: Relay.
Divide the group into teams of six to eight players. Each team is given one large and one small balloon.
The ...

Active, outdoors/indoors.
Equipment: Balloons, balloon baseball markers.
Formation: teams.
Players are divided into two teams. Each team designates a pitcher who pitches to his own team.
Each batter gets two pitches to hit a ...

Semi-active, indoors/outdoors.
Equipment: 1 banana per boy.
Formation: relay.
Line up the boys in relay formation, facing each other, and give each boy a banana. He must keep his right hand behind him ...

Semi-active, indoors.
Equipment: Balloons.
Formation: Relay.
Teams line up with members standing side by side, separated by the distance obtained when players stretch their arms sideways. Fingertips should touch ...

Outdoors/indoors
Equipment: 30-40 balloons; pencil and paper for the scorekeeper
Formation: Scatter
The balloons are blown up and scattered on the floor. Players stand in scatter formation.
On 'GO', the ...

After zapping everything he could see around his spaceship with his Alpha Particle Disintegrator ____________ (NOUN), Captain Zoom began to explore the ____________ (ADJECTIVE) planet Hang-On. Hang-On had a/an ____________ ...

Evening game, outdoors
Equipment: 2 handmade flags on staffs 2' long; 2 different coloured sets of arm or headbands made of crepe paper.
Formation: teams.
Divide the group into two teams. Identify each ...

Divide players into two sides: Attackers and Defenders.
Defenders form a circle, holding hands and facing outward, with their captain in the center.
Attackers surround the fort at about eight or ten ...

Required: Music, sound system with microphones, platform Players: Medium to large groups
Have youth group leaders get all participants standing and forming two circles. One of the circles should be inside ...

Evening game, outdoors/indoors.
Equipment: a little bell that rings easily.
Formation: circle.
Have the group sit in a circle. Choose one person to sit in the centre of the circle.
The leader gives the ...

Evening game, outdoors
Equipment: flashlight
Formation: scatter
The game is best in a large open wooded area.
Players line up at one end of the playing area, while one player, holding a flashlight, stands ...

Divide children into small groups and ask them to visualize, that they are doctors working in magic hospital where laziness, cunnings, greediness, anger etc. are being treated.
Children should choose one ...

Nature game, outdoors
Equipment: None
Formation: Group
The object of this game is to discover a friend in nature, without harming any living thing that might be found in the out- of-doors.
Players are ...

Active, outdoors/indoors
Equipment: Per team: 1 conductor hat; 1 whistle
Formation: shuttle
Divide the group into two or more teams; line them up in shuttle formation, with half the team at one end ...

Water game, outdoors.
Equipment: none.
Formation: teams
Divide the group into teams of 8-10 players.
Set up a 'monster' relay where every player has a role. Some swim through shallow water, some through deep ...

The Canadian Camping Association (CCA) gave us permission to reprint a nature hunt idea that encourages exploration. Developed by Jean Funk, chairman of the CCA's environmental concerns committee, it's best ...

Nature game, outdoors/indoors
Equipment: 1 compass
Formation: scatter
The leader gathers the group together. Using the compass, they all learn how to determine which direction is north. Someone from the group is asked ...

Active, outdoors/indoors
Equipment: per team: suitcase; umbrella; hat; coat; gloves; scarf (it is ideal if the clothing is oversized).
Formation: relay.
Divide the group into even teams and line up each team in ...

Semi-active, indoors/outdoors
Equipment: none.
Formation: relay.
The Sixes line up in files with their Sixers about 10 metres ahead of them. The first Cub in each Six is blindfolded. The Sixers then change ...

Active, outdoors/indoors.
Equipment: 1 chair per Six.
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Semi-active, indoors.
Equipment: Balloons.
Formation: Relay.
Teams line up with members standing side by side, separated by the distance obtained when players stretch their arms sideways. ...

Nature game, outdoors.
Equipment: The Outdoors.
Formation: semi-circle.
The purpose of this game is to discover the beautiful sounds that can be created by the natural objects in our environment.
Each player is given ...

Active, outdoors/indoors.
Equipment: Per team: sweatpants; jacket; hockey mask; 2 garbage bags.
Formation: relay.
Divide the group into two or more teams. Line teams up at one end of the playing area, with ...

Active, outdoors/indoors
Equipment: Per team: apron; towel, broom, dustpan, bucket filled with water, 2 dishes, garbage can.
Formation: relay
Divide the group into two or more teams, and line them up in straight ...

Nature game, outdoors.
Equipment: None.
Formation: scatter, in a wooded area with several varieties of trees.
Players are divided into three or four groups such as Sugar Maple, Beeches, Yellow birches, ironwoods. In ...

Nature game, outdoors.
Equipment: Blindfolds, stones.
Formation: scatter.
Half the group is given blindfolds to wear. These players are placed in scatter formation within the boundaries of the playing area. A stone is ...

Nature game, indoors
Equipment: blindfolds, flashlight.
Formation: scatter.
This is a terrific evening program variation to the original Stalker game. The players protecting the stone between their feet are given flashlights. When they ...

For a pack meeting preopening activity, disassemble some familiar device of appliance such as a mechanical alarm clock, lock, small electric motor, or ancient computer. Put various internal parts in ...

Semi-active, outdoors/indoors
Equipment: Per team: 20' rope, sweatpants, long underwear or large tights, moustache, derby hat, stool, 6' stick.
Formation: shuttle.
Line up the teams in shuttle formation at either end of their ...

Evening game, outdoors.
Equipment: 3 soccer balls painted white; 6 markers with reflectors attached (to make 3 goals).
Formation: teams.
Divide the players into three teams. On the playing field, set up three ...

The leader give a three-minute weather report with lots of weather activity around the country-snow in the Rockies, tornadoes in Oklahoma, scorching hot weather in Florida, rain in Pennsylvania, cloudy ...

Nature game, outdoors
Equipment: A nature trail.
Formation: Scatter
The object of this game is to allow the players the opportunity to pretend they are animals, trying to hide from Man.
The group walks ...